ABBOTT, GEORGE (1889– ), American playwright, was born in Forestville, N.Y., on June 25, 1889. He graduated at the University of Rochester (1911), where he wrote and acted for the dramatic club. The following year he studied dramatic writing with Prof. George Pierce Baker at Harvard, had a one-act play produced by the Harvard dramatic club, and won a prize play contest at the Keith Bijou theatre. In order to learn more about the stage and before having any plays accepted for pro fessional productions he became an actor. He appeared in im portant roles in Zander the Great, with Alice Brady; Hell Bent for Heaven and Processional, where his acting of the blinded Ishmaelite was particularly outstanding, and other Broadway pro ductions. His first play to be produced, Fall Guy (published in the Best Plays of 1924-25), was written in collaboration with James Gleason ; the next, Love 'Em and Leave 'Em, with John V. A. Weaver; The Holy Terror, with Winchell Smith; and Four Walls, with Dana Burnet. His Broadway (published in the Best Plays of 1926-27), written with Phillip Dunning, was one of the dramatic successes of 1926-27. His Coquette, a play memorable for its rendering of life in the southern United States, was like wise a notable production of the season 1927-28.